从失踪到重写——论黄锦树马共题材小说中的“父”

From Going Missing to Rewriting: the ‘Father’ in the Malaysian-Communist Themed Fiction of Ng Kim Chew

马共书写一直是黄锦树创作的重心,"父"、"马共"、"写作"、缺位的"我"等在此类小说中交织缠绕,作为马共的"父"与作为书写者的"父"又相互重叠交替,呈现出有意味的阐释张力。从早期的《大卷宗》(1989)到晚近的《如果父亲写作》(2014),黄锦树笔下的"父"由"失踪"变为"重写",两部小说从内容、文体、语言上都充满了不安定感。《大卷宗》中祖父预支了"我"的生命进行写作,完成的"大卷宗"又流离海外、失去居所;而《如果父亲写作》中父亲的"文"则是假拟的定居,"我"的出生直接被删除,"我"的缺位意味着生命力回溯与叙事错位,小说呈现出多个时空交错的幻境。

It has always been Ng Kim Chew’s centre of gravity to write about Malaysian Communists.In such writings,‘Father’,‘Malaysian Communists’,‘writing’and the absent‘I’are interwoven.‘Father’as the Malaysian Communist and‘Father’as the writer are overlapping,with a meaningful explicatory tension.From his early The Big Dossier(1989)to his latest If My Father Wrote(2014),Huang’s‘father’moves from‘gone missing’to‘re-writing’as both novels are filled with a sense of insecurity in contents,style and language.In The Big Dossier,the grandfather engages in writing by taking an advance on‘my’life and after he finishes the‘great dossier’he goes adrift overseas,having lost his residence.And in If My Father Wrote,the‘text’by the father is a fictive one about residence as‘my’birth is directly deleted.This absence of‘I’means the juxtaposition of a return of life force with narration in a novel that presents many illusionary situations with time and space entwined.